You rock like a chair.

So one of the things people tell me I should look at graduate school in is... computer lurve? Dear me. I didn't think you could get a Ph.D. in that...

What does it say about me personally that I changed majors to get out of the Major of Lurve? (I suppose that the prospect of a semester with Peter Moore is enough to dampen any interest in LURVE. ;) )

Really? Must have been after I fled.

Hey, wait a minute. It occurs to me that my love life was a joke right up until I joined my current lab in the equivalent department hereabouts. You might be on to something....

Finally, a bright side to the long graduation time around here. :-p

They don't issue us a phyiscal MS for fear that people would apply with the intention of dropping out and leveraging the degree for a higher starting salary in Biotech, thus consuming program resources without conducting any of the research that (in princple) makes it worth their while to pay our way through school. (This actually happened during the biotech boom.) It is, at the program directors' discretion, possible to be granted a terminal MS upon washing out of the program, but it's understandibly hard to collect any data on what the criteria are for this.